Just barely a month after dashcam footage from another vehicle captured on film a Chinese toddler falling from a minivan onto a highway in Jiangsu Province, a similar accident again happened in Yunnan Province.
People’s Daily reported that surveillance footage on March 24 at a crossroad in Zhaotong City in Yunnan showed a child falling from a minivan’s back door. The driver of the next car that was following the minivan did not see the accident and drove on.
But the driver of the minivan noticed and immediately stopped. The footage showed an old woman jumped out of the van and instructed the next vehicle to back out. The two drivers then pulled the child from the car’s wheels and the kid was carried back to the minivan which drove off.
Both the drivers of the car that ran over the child and the minivan did not call the police. There is no record of the accident, except on the surveillance footage which authorities noticed only when they were reviewing the video file.
Children falling out of vehicles in China indicate the family of the kids are not using child car seats. Almost 20,000 children below 14 years old die yearly in China from injuries in road collision, according to the Ministry of Communication.
This led China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and Certification, and the Accreditation Administration to require certification from the two agencies all child safety seats sold in the country beginning Sept. 1, 2015. The order includes imported car safety seats, reported CCTV America.